IFLA Working Programme 02 - Children and Youth

Goal: Advocate for child-friendly and youth orientated spaces in landscape design, promoting play, learning, and social development.

Impact: Create stimulating and inclusive environments that support the physical, cognitive, and social development of children and youth.

Working Programme Members

Director - Helen Woolley

Helen Woolley is head of school, School of Architecture and Landscape, University of Sheffield. Her interests lie in people and the everyday use of green and open spaces. This includes issues around designing, planning and managing green and open spaces at different scales. She researches about children's outdoor environments, related  to policy, practice and use and has an increasing focus on how this is facilitated or constrained by individual structures, organisations and society. I am a member of the Multidisciplinary Centre of Study of Childhood and Youth and the Steering Froup up for the Sheffield Urban Institute.

Co-director - Sarah Little

Sarah Little is a registered landscape architect in North Carolina. For 10 years she has worked as a landscape designer in the design slash build field creating high end residential landscapes. She's also designed children’s play environments and park master plans involving issues of environmental justice and community participation. Sarah obtained a PhD in design from North Carolina State University. Her research broadly focuses on understanding the influence of the design of the physical environment on human development. Her current research projects include linking human attachment with place attachment, understanding the link between natural environments and autonomy, and developing observational scales for behaviour mapping..

Other members of the Working Programme

Dana Luse

Elsadira Suciana

Ilze Janpavle

Oarabile Chingapane

Wafa Abusaif

Wendy Hoddinott

Yiwei Huang